US1360433A - Tag-fastener - Google Patents

Description

F. W. NEWTON.

TAG FASTENER- APPUCATION FILED DEC,8. l9l9.

1 ,360,433. Patented Nov. 30, 1920.

17vvE/v TOR: FRANK W NEWTO/V.

BY M/ W ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

TAG-FASTENER.

Application filed December 8, 1919.

1 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FRANK V. NEWTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tag- Fasteners, of which the following is a speci fication.

My invention relates to tag fasteners and an object is to provide a device for securely fastening tags to sacks or other articles. Another object is to provide a fastener so constructed that a pull on the tag will have no tendency to straighten out or distort the fastener.

The full objects and advantages of my invention will appear in connection with the detailed description thereof and the novel features embodied in my inventive idea. will.

be particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the application. of my invention,- Figure 1 is a view in perspective of my fastener showing the tag in proper position thereon. Fig. 2 illustrates the first step in applying the fastener to a sack. Fig. 3 illustrates the next step. Fig. 4L illustrates the fastener completely applied to a sack or similar article.

Referring to the construction shown in the drawings, a strip of material such as wire is bent into triangular shape having a base member 10 and two side members 12 and 14. One end of the strip is bent up from the base member to form a member 16 which is overlapped upon the side member 12 so as to extend in the same general direct-ion therewith, the length of the member 16 Jeing preferably about half the length of the side member 12. From the latter member of the triangle the second or free end of the strip extends beyond the base member 10 to form a member 18 adapted to Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 30, 1920.

Serial No. 343,264.

be pushed through the material to which the fastener is to be applied. A tag 20 is threaded upon the fastener so as to be carried by the corner formed by the base 10 and the side 14. As shown in F ig. 2, the member 18 is first pushed through the material such as a sack 22 to which the tag is to be fastened. The member 16 is then brought into position to engage the material of the sack as shown in Fig. 3 and the fastener is drawn forwardly so that the corner between the base 10 and the side 12 of which the member 16 may be considered to form a part is firmly anchored in the sack, as shown in Fig. 4. In the last-mentioned position the tag 20 is firmly secured to the sack in such manner that any pull upon the tag acts entirely upon the base 10, so that there is no tendency to straighten out the fastener and cause distortion thereof which might result in the parts assum ing such a position that detachment of the tag might easily occur. The free member '18 of the fastener is retained inside of the sack, where it is out of the way.

I claim: 7

A tag fastener constructed from a single strip of material formed into triangular shape, one end nortion of said strip extending at an angle from the base member and overlapping upon one of the side members, said side member having a free end which extends beyond said base member at the corner thereof opposite the tag-holding corner formed between the base member and the other of said sides whereby a pull upon the tag acts entirely upon the base member without tendency to straighten-the two side members.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afiix my signature.

FRANK WV. NEWTON.

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